the last ten winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded this Thursday, October 5 in Stockholm (Sweden). The predictions are going well, especially since for ten years the Academy has made assertive choices which often provoke controversy. Looking back on 10 years of Nobels

The last ten winners

2022: Annie Ernaux (France) for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she discovers the roots, the distances and the collective constraints of personal memory”.

2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah (UK) for “his empathetic and uncompromising account of the effects of colonialism, and the fate of refugees caught between cultures and continents.”

2020: Louise Glück (United States) “for his characteristic poetic voice, which with its austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

2019: Peter Handke (Austria) “for his influential work which, strong in linguistic ingenuity, explored the periphery and singularity of human experience”.

2018: Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) “for a narrative imagination which, with encyclopedic passion, symbolizes the crossing of borders as a form of life”.

2017: Kazuo Ishiguro (UK) “who revealed, in novels of powerful emotional force, the abyss beneath our illusory sense of comfort in the world.”

2016: Bob Dylan (United States) “for having created new modes of poetic expression within the great tradition of American music.”

2015: Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus) “for his polyphonic work, memorial of suffering and courage in our time”.

2014: Patrick Modiano (France) “for the art of memory with which he evoked the most elusive human destinies and revealed the world of the Occupation”.

2013: Alice Munro (Canada) “sovereign of the art of the contemporary short story”.

2012: Mo Yan (China) “which with hallucinatory realism, unites tale, history and the contemporary”.

Literary circles which have been speculating for weeks will be set for 1:00 p.m. (11:00 GMT) when the Swedish Academy will reveal the lucky winner.